Semester 2 has kicked off with lights and action! In the Truth and Perception Central Study we have immersed students into a sequence of learning that includes the physics and strangeness of light, and some philosophy and weirdness of human perception. Over weeks 9 and 10, students have spent their class time having lively class discussions as they explored a wide variety of hands-on activities such as:
- experiencing visual illusions, interesting sound perceptions, and altered touch perceptions
- mixing coloured RGB lights and shining torches through fingers and coloured film
- shining lasers through double slits and clouds of CO2
- rotating layers of polarised film, to ‘see’ like a dung beetle
- shining UV light on fluorescent flowers to ‘see’ like a bee
- using an infrared camera to ‘see’ like a snake
- calculating vision levels using eye-charts
- measuring reflected and refracted angles with mirrors and prisms
Have a look at what’s to come!:
Please ask your child if they think that light is a particle (photon) or a wave (electromagnetic radiation)? See if their experiences in Truth and Perception has led them to any conclusions about what is true or real!
